Practical hints on district nursing / by Amy Hughes.

  • Hughes, Amy.
Date:
1898
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Practical hints on district nursing / by Amy Hughes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    There is plenty of independence and self- respect among them, though often oddly enough expressed, and the nurse must have a care not to sow seeds of dependence on outside help when sickness and trouble invade the home, which may bear fruit in the workhouse. If the poor are trained to believe relief and nursing go hand in hand, and that everything will be provided for them in illness, what encouragement is there for thrift and laying by for a rainy day? In mid- wifery work this is even more especially the case—free doctors, free nurses, free clothing bags, free dinners, destroy that maternal instinct of preparation which the very animals possess. A nurse can do so much if she only understands how important the subject is. Brought face to face with the effects of imprudence by sudden illness, many a man will join a club or benefit society on his recovery. By regular payment when health and wages are good to the Foresters, the Hearts of Oak, or some other secure society, a member receives regular and sufficient sick pay when ill, either in hospital or at home, to keep the wolf from the door, and save the weary anxiety which often retards convalescence out of due proportion to the illness. Wives and mothers can be encouraged to join clothing and blanket clubs. The children can be persuaded to save their